Contributing
Contributing to Nuclei N100 SDK project is always welcome.
You can always do a lot of things to help Nuclei N100 SDK project improve and grow stronger.
Port your Nuclei SoC into Nuclei N100 SDK
If you want to port you Nuclei Processor Core based Board to Nuclei N100 SDK, you need to follow these steps:
And the best example is our evalsoc support, although it may contains many unused features you may not want to use, but it is our evaluation SoC and will supply to provide best support for Nuclei RISC-V CPU features, if you are already using it, please keep in update of the evalsoc support changes in each release, you can track it by diff each release changes, and please also remember Nuclei N100 SDK release may also bump with NMSIS release.
Assume your SoC name is ncstar
, based on Nuclei core n100, and RISCV_ARCH
is rv32imc
, RISCV_ABI is ilp32
, and you made a new board called ncstar_eval
,
and this SoC only support FlashXIP download mode.
Make sure the SoC name and Board name used in this Nuclei N100 SDK is all in lowercase.
Create a folder named
ncstar
under SoC directory.Create folder named
Board
andCommon
underncstar
Create directory structure under
ncstar/Common
like below:<ncstar/Common> ├── Include │ ├── peripheral_or_device_headers.h │ ├── ...... │ ├── ncstar.h │ ├── nuclei_sdk_soc.h │ └── system_ncstar.h └── Source ├── Drivers │ ├── peripheral_or_device_sources.c │ └── ...... ├── GCC │ ├── intexc_ncstar.S │ └── startup_ncstar.S ├── Stubs │ ├── newlib │ └── libncrt ├── ncstar_soc.c └── system_ncstar.c
Note
The directory structure is based on the NMSIS device template, please refer to https://doc.nucleisys.com/nmsis/core/core_templates.html
The folder names must be exactly the same as the directory structure showed
peripheral_or_device_sources.c means the SoC peripheral driver source code files, such as uart, gpio, i2c, spi driver sources, usually get from the SoC firmware library, it should be placed in Drivers folder.
peripheral_or_device_headers.h means the SoC peripheral driver header files, such as uart, gpio, i2c, spi driver headers, usually get from the SoC firmware library, it should be placed in Include folder.
The Stubs folder contains the stub code files for newlib c library and nuclei c runtime library porting code, take
SoC/evalsoc/Common/Stubs
as reference.The GCC folder contains startup and exeception/interrupt assemble code, if your board share the same linker script files, you can also put link script files here, the linker script files name rules can refer to previously supported evalsoc SoC.
If you want to do IAR compiler support, you also need to implement IAR related stuff, which is located in folder called IAR.
The nuclei_sdk_soc.h file is very important, it is a Nuclei SoC Header file used by common application which can run accoss different SoC, it should include the SoC device header file
ncstar.h
Create directory structure under
ncstar/Board
like below:<ncstar/Board> └── ncstar_eval ├── Include │ ├── ncstar_eval.h │ └── nuclei_sdk_hal.h ├── openocd_ncstar.cfg └── Source ├── GCC │ └── gcc_ncstar_flashxip.ld └── ncstar_eval.c
Note
The ncstar_eval is the board folder name, if you have a new board, you can create a new folder in the same level
Include folder contains the board related header files
Source folder contains the board related source files
GCC folder is optional, if your linker script for the board is different to the SoC, you need to put your linker script here
openocd_ncstar.cfg file is the board related openocd debug configuration file
ncstar_eval.h file contains board related definition or APIs and also include the SoC header file, you can refer to previously supported board such as
nuclei_fpga_eval
nuclei_sdk_hal.h is very important, it includes the ncstar_eval.h header file. This file is used in application as entry header file to access board and SoC resources.
Create Makefile related to
ncstar
in Nuclei N100 SDK build systemCreate SoC/ncstar/build.mk, the file content should be like this:
##### Put your SoC build configurations below ##### BOARD ?= ncstar_eval # override DOWNLOAD and CORE variable for NCSTAR SoC # even though it was set with a command argument override CORE := n100 override DOWNLOAD := flashxip NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_BOARD := $(NUCLEI_SDK_SOC)/Board/$(BOARD) NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_COMMON := $(NUCLEI_SDK_SOC)/Common #no ilm on NCSTAR SoC LINKER_SCRIPT ?= $(NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_BOARD)/Source/GCC/gcc_ncstar_flashxip.ld OPENOCD_CFG ?= $(NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_BOARD)/openocd_ncstar.cfg RISCV_ARCH ?= rv32imc RISCV_ABI ?= ilp32 ##### Put your Source code Management configurations below ##### INCDIRS += $(NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_COMMON)/Include C_SRCDIRS += $(NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_COMMON)/Source \ $(NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_COMMON)/Source/Drivers ifneq ($(findstring libncrt,$(STDCLIB)),) C_SRCDIRS += $(NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_COMMON)/Source/Stubs/libncrt else ifneq ($(findstring newlib,$(STDCLIB)),) C_SRCDIRS += $(NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_COMMON)/Source/Stubs/newlib else # no stubs will be used endif ASM_SRCS += $(NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_COMMON)/Source/GCC/startup_ncstar.S \ $(NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_COMMON)/Source/GCC/intexc_ncstar.S # Add extra board related source files and header files VALID_NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_BOARD := $(wildcard $(NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_BOARD)) ifneq ($(VALID_NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_BOARD),) INCDIRS += $(VALID_NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_BOARD)/Include C_SRCDIRS += $(VALID_NUCLEI_SDK_SOC_BOARD)/Source endif
If you have setup the source code and build system correctly, then you can test your SoC using the common applications, e.g.
# Test helloworld application for ncstar_eval board ## cd to helloworld application directory cd application/baremetal/helloworld ## clean and build helloworld application for ncstar_eval board make SOC=ncstar BOARD=ncstar_eval clean all ## connect your board to PC and install jtag driver, open UART terminal ## set baudrate to 115200bps and then upload the built application ## to the ncstar_eval board using openocd, and you can check the ## run messsage in UART terminal make SOC=ncstar BOARD=ncstar_eval upload
Note
You can always refer to previously supported SoCs for reference, such as the
evalsoc
SoC, we suggest you follow theevalsoc
implementation, since it is well maintained to support latest nuclei riscv cpu feature.The
evalsoc
SoC is a FPGA based evaluation platform, it haveilm
anddlm
, so it support many download modesThe nuclei_sdk_soc.h must be created in SoC include directory, it must include the device header file <device>.h and SoC firmware library header files.
The nuclei_sdk_hal.h must be created in Board include directory, it must include nuclei_sdk_soc.h and board related header files.
Submit your issue
If you find any issue related to Nuclei N100 SDK project, you can open an issue in https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-sdk/issues
Submit your pull request
If you want to contribute your code to Nuclei N100 SDK project, you can open an pull request in https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-sdk/pulls
Regarding to code style, please refer to Code Style.
Git commit guide
If you want to contribute your code, make sure you follow the guidance of git commit, see here https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/ for details
Use the present tense (“Add feature” not “Added feature”)
Use the imperative mood (“Move cursor to…” not “Moves cursor to…”)
Limit the first line to 80 characters or less
Refer github issues and pull requests liberally using
#
Write the commit message with an category name and colon:
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board: changes related to board support packages
nmsis: changes related to NMSIS
build: changes releated to build system
library: changes related to libraries
rtos: changes related to rtoses
test: changes related to test cases
doc: changes related to documentation
ci: changes related to ci environment
application: changes related to applications
misc: changes not categorized
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